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The Secret of Kells

Laura — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 16:21:33 +0000

Wow. This movie is so beautiful. Every single scene is wonderfully rendered and animated. I wish the story arc drew me in a little more but it is worth watching for the look of it alone. Wow.

The Internet of the 90′s

Laura — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 02:36:35 +0000

I remember the first time a friend and I went to a chat room and pretended to be someone else. When only 1 in 5 friends even had the internet, and you had to choose between using the phone or hooking up to the internet. Now sometimes I look up and realize I’m coding on my laptop, streaming Netflix on the little computer hooked up to the tv, and playing Words With Friends on my iPhone all at the same time. Gluttons!

But when the internet was becoming an everyday thing in the 90′s, Hollywood had a good time with it. These movies are hilarious and awesome.

My favourite is when they are ‘surfing the internet’ in Hackers and everything is neon and circut boards.

Power of the Dark Crystal

Laura — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:23:53 +0000

What! I love the Dark Crystal and now they are making a sequal!? I am keeping my fingers crossed that they do everything old school with puppets and zero CG.

This is making me so excited I want to go home and have a Jim Henson-athon.

The Muppets & Christmas!

Laura — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:13:27 +0000

Don’t forget the movie! (see here on Hulu if you are in the States)

The Cup of Tears

Laura — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:48:53 +0000

The Cup of Tears film trailer. Dir. Gary Shore from Gary Shore on Vimeo.

Samurai - check
Mechs – looks like a check
Pretty ladies – check
Sweet, sweet anime like style – check!

Art & Copy

Laura — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:15:45 +0000

ART & COPY Trailer from ART & COPY on Vimeo.

I used to hate advertising too — now I just hate bad advertising.

Buffy vs. Edward

Laura — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:29:57 +0000

Bah ha ha!

Benjamin Button

Laura — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 02:58:21 +0000

I watched this last night, it is pretty nice. I wasn’t distracted by the special effects very much.

http://digitaldomain.com/benjamin_button_behind_the_scenes/

The skin and lighting on Benjamin’s CG head are flawless. It will be interesting to see Brad Pitt in forty years to see how close they came to guessing what he looks like at 90.

Spike Jonze

Laura — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:03:22 +0000

What a CV.

The Ending of 2001:A Space Odyssey, What It Means

Laura — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:02:21 +0000

Spoiler alert!

So, I read the book a long time ago, after seeing the movie. As previously mentioned, Arthur C. Clarke is one of my favourites.

There are really two stories in 2001, the story between HAL and Dave, and the story of the monoliths. I’m going to explain the latter.

There are three monoliths.

The first one is the one on Earth with the apes. It was placed there, to stimulate evolution. The apes come in contact with the monolith, their brains start a-firin’ and they figure out how to use a weapon. A race of aliens placed the monoliths on millions of planets and left them to their own devices with triggers to signal the aliens if a species actually evolved to a level worth knowing.

Which brings us to the second monolith—the one on the moon. What a great trigger! Once a species has figured out how to leave their planet and travel into space, they are probably worth talking to. So when the monolith on the moon is uncovered, it sends a message to the aliens and points where to go next for the humans.

The third monolith! It is out on the other side of Saturn. Our friend Dave is the only one to make it out there and discoverers a box full of stars and a psychedelic trip though space. The third black monolith is a gateway, to the galaxy that the aliens came from. By now they have evolved into beings of energy. They take Dave, he lives in a super cool hotel room, the rest of his life passes in seconds, and he is re-born. The aliens have jump started the next stage of evolution for him and he becomes an omnipotent being of energy, symbolized by the fetus/moon above Earth.

The End.